Tuesday, Sep 18, 2012 I recently obtained a new Retina MacBook Pro which will be my new development box, but was annoyed to remember that Terminal.app does not play well with the VIM feature, Control + 6 to toggle between two active buffers. After talking in irc.freenode.com#vim and not getting answers, I Google'd harder and found this StackExchange discussion which explains clearly the issue is that non-standard escape sequences are necessary. The solution is to use Control + Shift + 6 . This is annoying and unnecessary with the following fix I discovered after talking with my co-worker Dan Heberden . Dan recommended I look into keyremap4macbook which turned out to be exactly what was necessary in order to remap. Unfortunately, it's not exactly self-explanatory how to configure custom key sequences. Click Misc & Uninstall tab. Click open private.xml and ...